Police Quotes: Honoring the Protectors of Our Society

"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it"

"If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll"

Steven Adler, Musician

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared"

Caryl Chessman, Criminal

"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"The police must obey the law while enforcing the law"

Earl Warren, Judge

"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field"

Dusty Baker, Athlete

"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music"

John Sebastian, Musician

"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised"

Amy Lee, Musician

"How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities"

David E. Price, Politician

"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"A functioning police state needs no police"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On"

Sting, Musician

"Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement"

Barack Obama, President

"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's"

Harry S. Truman, President

"The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow"

Angie Dickinson, Actress

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